Steve,
Think of the thousands of lives that were saved from flying "eared" knock
offs by
legislation that was ahead of its time!! Does anyone know the "incident"
that may
have been the genesis of this well thought out law? Thanks.
Regards,
Doug
'56 BN2
> Hello, Healeyphiles -
>
> I received information this morning on a BJ8 now in Canada that
> will
> celebrate its 40th birthday in a few days. This car was originally
> shipped
> from the factory to the port of Philadelphia in January, 1966. The
> interesting thing is that the BMIHT certificate lists "octagonal
> wheel nuts"
> as part of the optional equipment.
> Among the 493 BMIHT certificates in the registry files, I have noted
> that
> cars shipped to Philadelphia as early as April, 1965 were equipped
> with the
> octagonal wheel nuts, while other cars for the USA do not start to
> include
> this type of nut consistently until June, 1967. As a matter of
> fact, if a
> certificate for a car earlier than about 41500 indicates the
> Destination
> only as "USA" (as many of them do), and the car has octagonal
> knockoffs, it
> would be a pretty good bet that the destination was actually
> Philadelphia.
>
> Cars destined for Germany had the "earless" knockoffs installed
> pretty much
> from the beginning of BJ8 production, and I would assume that was
> because of
> German law. Anyone have any idea why only cars for Philadelphia
> among those
> coming to the USA would have had these installed two years before
> other USA
> cars? The ones for New York, Newark, Baltimore, and other USA
> destinations
> apparently made do with the eared knockoffs.
>
> Thanks, and Happy Healeydays!
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC USA
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